Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 19 December 2001 by Mercedes Alvarez Moreno against Commission of the European Communities

    (Case T-323/01)

    (Language of the case: French)

An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 19 December 2001 by Mercedes Alvarez Moreno, residing in Berlin, represented by Georges Vandersanden and Laura Levi, avocats.

The applicant claims that the Court should:

(annul the decision taken by the defendant, as communicated to her by letters of 13 February 2001 and 23 February 2001, to apply an age limit set at 65 years to freelance interpreters and therefore to apply that age limit to her;

(annul, in so far as necessary, the rejection of the applicant's complaint by the Commission on 7 September 2001, received on 10 September 2001;

(find that the applicant may continue to work as freelance interpreter, for the Community institutions, beyond the age of 65;

(make good the damage caused to the applicant provisionally assessed at 1 euro;

(order the defendant to pay all the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of her arguments, the applicant relies on the same pleas in law as those put forward in T-153/01 Mercedes Alvarez Moreno v Commission (OJ 2001 C 275, p 11).

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